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I'm a retired librarian & archivist, working historian (especially in what's known as "local history" -- but it all is, isn't it?), descriptive bibliographer, sometime teacher, longtime genealogist, part-time journal and book editor & indexer, and nearly full-time reader of practically anything. My particular interests include science fiction, "classic literature," the craft of writing, social & m… Read moreI'm a retired librarian & archivist, working historian (especially in what's known as "local history" -- but it all is, isn't it?), descriptive bibliographer, sometime teacher, longtime genealogist, part-time journal and book editor & indexer, and nearly full-time reader of practically anything. My particular interests include science fiction, "classic literature," the craft of writing, social & material history, early medieval society, young adult fiction, and screenplays, among many others.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Tarantino strikes again!, July 15 2004
I have to admit, Quentin Tarantino is something of an acquired taste. I loved this film, as I have nearly all his stuff. My wife hated it -- as she has nearly all his stuff. Tarantino grew up on Hong Kong kung fu flicks and _Kill Bill_ is filled with homages, from the name of Sonny Chiba's character ("Hattori Hanzo," taken directly from the old "Shadow Warriors" television series), to Uma Thurman's Bruce-Lee-style yellow jumpsuit, to the Kato-style masks the Crazy-88 gang wears, to the galloping theme music that accompanies nearly every fight scene. The plot is simplicity itself: The Bride (Uma Thurman) was left for dead when all the rest of her wedding party was killed… Read more
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
This French animation feature is less than 90 minutes long but it's pure hoot. Madame Souza looks after her Tour-de-France-cyclist grandson -- whose name is "Champion" -- and when he's kidnapped during the race by large, square-shouldered villains, she follows them across the ocean to the city of Belleville . . . which looks suspiciously like a French-eye view of New York, complete with grotesquely overweight natives and oversized automobiles. There she meets the triplets, an aging trio of hot jazz singers from the 1920s or '30s, now living in a tenement and subsisting on frogs (harvested with potato-masher grenades). And the rescue of Champion is on the way! The real star,… Read more
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I read a lot of fiction, and some of it is almost immediately forgotten, and some of it stays with me for awhile. This book is going to be in the back of my mind for a long, long time. There are three distinct sections, the first set in 1935 at a semi-stately family home in Surrey. Briony Tallis, from whose viewpoint we see things (and frequently misunderstand them), is thirteen and a precocious and overimaginative writer. Her sister, Cecilia, has just finished university and is sort of marking time while she waits for the next stage of her life to begin, whatever it might turn out to be. There's also a brother, Leon, only a couple years older than Cecilia, to whom she is very close. And… Read more
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